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Yellow-billed amazon

Amazona collaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

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The yellow-billed amazon (Amazona collaria) is a species in the family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes. Recorded adults weigh about 187 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Vulnerable.

Yellow-billed amazon (Amazona collaria)
Photo: Wayne Sutherland from Kingston, Jamaica · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the yellow-billed amazon

Weight
187 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Omnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
3.5 – 3.75src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the yellow-billed amazon live?

Not recorded

What is the yellow-billed amazon?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The yellow-billed amazon (Amazona collaria), also called the yellow-billed parrot or Jamaican amazon, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is a predominantly green parrot with a short tail and pink throat and neck. It is endemic to Jamaica, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, plantations, and rural gardens. It is threatened by habitat loss and illegal trapping of wild birds for the pet trade.

The yellow-billed amazon was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

From the Wikipedia article “Yellow-billed amazon” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yellow-billed_amazon&oldid=1378897495), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the yellow-billed amazon endangered?

The yellow-billed amazon is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Vulnerable species.

How is the yellow-billed amazon classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPsittaciformes
  5. familyPsittacidae
  6. genusAmazona
  7. SpeciesAmazona collaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Psittacus collarius

Other names and names in other languages (48)
  • Yellow-billed AmazonEnglish
  • Yellow-billed AmazonEnglish
  • Yellow-billed AmazonEnglish
  • Yellow-billed parrotEnglish
  • Yellow-billed parrotEnglish
  • ببغاء أصفر المنقارArabic
  • أمازون أصفر المنقارArabic
  • papagai jamaicà bec-clarCatalan
  • Amazona de Jamaica becclaraCatalan
  • amazoňan jamajskýCzech
  • amason pigfelynWelsh
  • Jamaica AmazoneDanish
  • Jamaica-amazoneDanish
  • JamaikaamazoneGerman
  • Jamaika-AmazoneGerman
  • flavbeka amazonpapagoEsperanto
  • Loro de JamaicaSpanish
  • Amazona de pico amarilloSpanish
  • Amazona jamaicana piquiclaraSpanish
  • Loro de pico amarilloSpanish
  • koldnokk-amatsoonpapagoiEstonian
  • jamaikanamatsoniFinnish
  • Amazone sasabéFrench
  • jamajčka amazonkaCroatian
  • jamaicai amazonHungarian
  • jamaikai amazonHungarian
  • Ճամայական դեղնակտուց ամազոնArmenian
  • Amazzone beccogialloItalian
  • エリマキボウシインコJapanese
  • YellowbillJamaican Creole English
  • geltonsnapė amazonėLithuanian
  • GeelsnavelamazoneDutch
  • rosenstrupeamazonNorwegian
  • amazonka jamajskaPolish
  • papagaio-jamaicanoPortuguese
  • papagaio-da-jamaicaPortuguese
  • Papagaio-de-bico-amareloPortuguese
  • papagaio-de-bico-claroPortuguese
  • Желтоклювый амазонRussian
  • Ямайский желтоклювый амазонRussian
  • amazoňan žltozobýSlovak
  • Jamajkanski amazonacSerbian
  • gulnäbbad amazonSwedish
  • Jamaika AmazonuTurkish
  • амазон жовтоволийUkrainian
  • Жовтодзьобий ямайський амазонUkrainian
  • 黄嘴鹦哥Chinese
  • 黃嘴亞馬遜鸚哥Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the yellow-billed amazon

Other species in the same genus Amazona.

NT, Near Threatened
Cuban amazon (Amazona leucocephala)

Cuban amazon

Amazona leucocephala

Psittacidae

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the yellow-billed amazon?

An adult yellow-billed amazon weighs 187 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the yellow-billed amazon endangered?

The yellow-billed amazon is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

What kind of animal is the yellow-billed amazon?

The yellow-billed amazon (Amazona collaria) belongs to the family Psittacidae in the order Psittaciformes.

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BibTeX
@misc{yellow_billed_amazon_2026,
  title = {Yellow-billed amazon (Amazona collaria)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/yellow-billed-amazon},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}